ensure
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From Anglo-Norman enseurer, from Old French seur (“sure”).
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ensure (third-person singular simple present ensures, present participle ensuring, simple past and past participle ensured)
- (transitive) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. [14th-18th c.]
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVI:
- ‘Fayre knyght, for Goddis love, sle me nat, and I shall ensure the never to warre ayenste thy lady, but be allway towarde hir.’
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVI:
- (intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). [from 18th c.]
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make sure or certain
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